MGB: Genuine Collectors Item

....all English, not one word of Spanish on the Box..........or French. Bid now Bid often

I got in trouble the last time I went there.

not worried...nothing racist or bigoted about it. I have plenty of Mexican friend bona fidies....

maybe not French ones tho..........

That is NOT the same Aunt that you and I grew up with each morning....she is almost Michelle like....

[quote=kirks-auto]
That is NOT the same Aunt that you and I grew up with each morning....she is almost Michelle like....[/quote]

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Is that box from the 1920"s? Like your teen-years? :P

I checked with NCIS. That Aunt Jemima is not wearing a bandanna head wrap and her face is not plump. This Auntie has been gentrified. She is more white. I will not post a picture of Hattie McDaniels this time because I do not want to get censored (ridiculous as that is). So that box cannot be that old. Do you have a expiration date on that box, Wyatt?

NOooooo, Steve. Auntie Jemima looked quite different in the 1920s...

http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1287/Nancy_Green_the_original_Aunt_Jemima

Auntie's bandanna was removed in 1989


http://www.auntjemima.com/aj_history/

[quote=JackMG]
NOooooo, Steve. Auntie Jemima looked quite different in the 1920s...[/quote]


THAT IS MY AUNTIE...Peter's links are very educational to the history. No less than actual women portrayed a live Aunt Jemima.

[quote=comart45]
Auntie's bandanna was removed in 1989


http://www.auntjemima.com/aj_history/[/quote]

This story was in Newsday yesterday

[size=x-large]Commack HS senior sent home for Aunt Jemima costume[/size]
October 30, 2009 By JOHN VALENTI john.valenti@newsday.com

Every year since the third grade, Dean Jeziorkowski has gone to school dressed as a woman for Halloween - Barbie, Wilma Flintstone, Pocahontas, a nun.

This year the 17-year-old Commack High School senior dressed as a black-faced Aunt Jemima, prompting school officials to send him home after he refused to scrub the makeup off his face, Jeziorkowski said.

The student said he was told the outfit was racist. Jeziorkowski said he wasn't trying to be racist, and he did not understand how the costume could be considered offensive.

"No one had any problems with me dressed as Pocahontas," he said. This year "they decided I was being offensive. . . . The thing is, I was just wearing a costume."

Asked about the incident Friday, Commack High Principal Russell Stewart declined to comment.

Commack Superintendent of Schools James A. Feltman said a "school official gave him [the student] the opportunity to change." He declined to comment further.

The Aunt Jemima character - a smiling African-American woman - is a registered trademark of the Quaker Oats Co. and has undergone significant portrayal revisions since it was first introduced in 1893.

The term "Aunt Jemima" has often been used in a colloquial form as the female version of the derogatory "Uncle Tom" portrayal of African-Americans.

"These have been historical figures in the past to demonize and make fun of African-Americans," NAACP Long Island regional Director Tracey A. Edwards said Friday. "Black face and Aunt Jemima. . . . Those two in particular. It's offensive, it's hurtful and it's insensitive."

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"Because I'm a boy. That's a girl. I was a big fat lady. I had a bottle of syrup and everything . . . I was asking, 'Who wants pancakes?' "

The senior said he was told by Stewart and Assistant Principal Susan Shapiro "I had to wash off the paint or leave." Shapiro did not return calls Friday.

Jeziorkowski said he dressed as a cheerleader for school Halloween day in third grade, as Raggedy Ann in fourth, Barbie in fifth, a female "nerd" in sixth, a pregnant woman in seventh, one of the "Pink Ladies" from "Grease" in eighth, Wilma Flintstone in ninth, Pocahontas in 10th and a nun in 11th.

With Carl MacGowan

[quote=wyatt]
....all English, not one word of Spanish on the Box..........or French. Bid now Bid often[/quote]

Do you need help translating.

no,...I'll just take it to Home Depot.